WordPress

https://instant.page/1.1.0

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my discussion here:Site speedup – preloading pages on mouseover Note: Since the license of this instant.page thing is very permissive and since I want to have a backup copy of it in case the Cloudflare hosted copy disappears one day, here is a copy of the code: from https://instant.page/license instant.page’s license © 2019 Alexandre Dieulot … Read more

Sneaky Jetpack

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I want this “visibility” setting for my widgets on a new site that I’m working on: I know that *something* exists to do this, because I have it here on ericshefferman.com! I have the Widget Logic plugin but I’ve always disliked that it doesn’t have a logic/conditionals cheat sheet right in the plugin. And it … Read more

Ancient WordPress Themes

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While rooting through all my websites to bring them up to use SSL  (so they have that nice https:// and a lock that shows google likes them), I removed a bunch of old plugins and themes that haven’t been updated in years (internet decades).

This first image is a true gem – the “default” WordPress theme — that came complete on installation along with insisting that “admin” be the default user

And here’s another special one — to give the internet the look like it would have had when I was a kid:

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